Saturday, September 22, 2007

The usual theatrics from Gordon Brown on foot and mouth ( just who is the DEFRA minister these days anyway ? Seems there's good publicity to be had for Gordon for this one, so unlike Northern Rock he isn't hiding ).

The committee meeting ( how they must love the title COBRA - rather reminds you of a iffy Sylvester Stallone movie - tough anyway ) is to discover why the great clunking fist, after underfunding government labs with lethal viruses, hasn't prevailed over Foot and Mouth.

The real risk Gordon is worried about isn't to farmers ( who he'll assume are Tory voting and deserve to go out of business ), but to his desperate need to have a smash and grab election before the bad economic front closes in.

What are the risks of a national outbreak, during an election. Would such an election have to be postponed like last time ?

No democracy for England

About Me

The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.